- General Stuff
- Ladies and gentlemen, I present the governor of California.
- And speaking of the governor … An analysis of the temporal anomalies in the Terminator series is pretty interesting.
- Dracula’s drycleaner must die! (link via mefi)
- Techie Stuff
- You must read John Gruber’s excellent essay on the long, slow decline of Microsoft.
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, and now … more spam.
- Gator Stuff
- Here are five reasons why this season won’t be easy for Florida.
Posts tagged “dailydavid”
- General Stuff
- Reading emails from crazy people is at least as much fun as reading psychotic letters from men.
- The iConcertCal app lets you know when the artists in your iTunes library are performing near you. That’s just a good idea.
- While I was on vacation, my coworkers wallpapered my office pink and plastered hundreds of Hannah Montana stickers and postcards all over the walls.
- If you haven’t done it yet, now is the perfect time to Mad Men Yourself.
- Techie Stuff
- WordPress Bits has lots of nifty tips for WordPress bloggers.
- Want to display a special maintenance message while you’re working on the guts of your WordPress site? There’s a plugin for that.
- General Stuff
- Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one.
- How many people have been looking for unusual paintings of Obama naked with unicorns?
- Is it possible to cheat on the Rorschach test?
- Techie Stuff
- Spam, spam, spam, spam, and now … more spam.
- Although coverage in Los Angeles is generally pretty good, I agree: AT&T can’t handle the iPhone.
- There’s nothing quite like a banana billboard to liven up a cool Photoshop tutorial on the free transform tool.
- General Stuff
- 4th of July Fireworks over the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Front Street in historic Lahaina Town in Maui, Hawaii, recorded with my iPhone 3GS
- It took a lot of dedication to spend nineteen years building the world’s best model aircraft carrier.
- Is there really such a thing as a rock star accountant?
- Classic advertising is often quite funny.
- Who says money can’t buy happiness?
- A surprising number of people have survived falling from an airplane.
- The University of Florida announced that students enrolling in the College of Pharmacy this Fall will be required to own either an iPhone or iPod touch.
- New research shows that boys with stupid names are more likely to become criminals.
- Techie Stuff
- Freeware Genius contains tons of reviews of great free software.
- If you want to know what tech articles I’m reading, you should subscribe to my delicious feed.
- There are a ton of free Twitter icons, logos, and badges available.
- iWebKit lets you easily create websites formatted for the iPhone.
- What exactly is a WordPress Theme Framework?
- There is no such thing as “dolphin-safe tuna”.
- I can’t decide which is more fun: The Lyttle Lytton Contest or the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
- Fans of conspiracy theories will absolutely love the MeFi thread on pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, UN officials, the Russians, Barack Obama, and the recently-deceased, single-white-gloved whistle-blower … Michael Jackson.
- Swedish civil rights heroes win freedom of toplessness at public pools.
- I have to assume that the guy in Tallahassee that accidentally sent coke and weed through the bank tube with his deposit is an FSU grad.
- General Stuff
- My dad continues to regularly post some of his amazing photographs from Portsmouth, Bristol, and Newport, Rhode Island.
- When browsing Craigslist you will often find items that are not (quite) as advertised.
- The International Space Station took some awesome pictures of an erupting Russian volcano.
- Trusting your eyes is just silly. This optical illusion should help prove that.
- Some things are just too cool for words. The Illustrated LEGO Bible is one of them. (See also: The Art of the Brick.)
- I think Google Voice could be awesome … if I didn’t already have an iPhone 3Gs.
- CNN’s Cost of Living Calculator is pretty slick. It looks like Manhattan is the only place in America that is more expensive than LA.
- Megan Fox certainly does seem to lick her lips and teeth frequently.
- Techie Stuff
- The Mimo Mini USB Monitor is a great idea. I want one.
- Google has several trillion reasons to want to help you make the web faster. And they’re giving you some cool tools to help get the job done.
- I Use This tracks your software and lets you know when updates are available.
- General Stuff
- I followed a link on Hidden Los Angeles and found a killer list of film locations in town. (I’m going to go out on a limb and assume LA has a lot more of these than most cities. Sometimes I forget that I am living in what has to be the coolest city in the world.)
- If you post a classified ad, think twice before replying to Mike.
- “I thought he wanted to kill us,” Heard said. “He was so angry and upset.” — Perhaps he wasn’t asked if he wanted to spend the rest of his life in captivity. I’m just sayin’.
They’re a bit expensive, but these trash compactor bookends are sweet.- Fun: Check out the size of these balls! [Ed. note: Local copy of image for posterity saved here.]
- Techie Stuff
- It’s great to hear that the first ever entirely volunteer-run open source conference was a huge success. My good friend Thomas had a big hand in that.
- When you’re designing websites, it’s handy to have a test template to check what your stylesheets will look like.
- WordPress 2.8 makes it even easier to code widgets.
- If you want to target links to open in a new window while still having valid code, it can be done with jQuery.
- Which iPhone 3.0 software features does my iPhone support?
- General Stuff
- My dad has recently posted some awe-inspiring photos. You should subscribe to his Flickr feed.
- Moderate drinking is probably not really all that good for you. I try to explain this to people all the time. Shark attacks and ice cream sales always peak at about the same time, but neither one causes the other!
- Little Wheel is a Flash game that will drive you crazy.
- If you’re worried about the potential for killing your spouse in a fit of rage, perhaps you should invest in an anti-stab knife.
- This sounds like a pretty sweet job: We want to hire a social media whiz (your title will be “Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondentâ€) who will report on the cool lifestyle of Sonoma County Wine Country and, of course, tell people what you’re learning about winemaking.
- Techie Stuff
- Font Replacement Using Cufón
- You can configure your WordPress blog to send SMS (text) messages to your readers.
- Any web developer worth his (or her) salt should know these Javascript best practices.
- General Stuff
- Hunch launches Monday!
- Digg this: Give Dick Cheney a Wedgie!
- Interesting news: Antioxidants and exercise don’t mix?
- Now … Go Break The Windows
- What makes us happy?
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Batman’s ride can be found at batmobilehistory.com.
- The Future of Facebook Usernames
- I never knew that anesthesia was first used at Massachusetts General Hospital.
- 30 Rock vs. The Muppet Show
- Christian Bale vs. Kermit the Frog
- Techie Stuff
- How To Turn Off Post Revision In WordPress
- General Stuff
- Tom Swifties are awesome.
- The Boston Public Library has posted a huge collection of vintage travel posters.
- Simple Marriage has posted a primer on social media that’s worth a read if you can’t seem to understand the difference between — or reason for — Facebook and Twitter.
- Captain Crunch in court: Reasonable Consumers Know That Crunchberries Aren’t Real, Rules Judge
- The funniest thing I have seen on the Internet in a long time is the literal translation of Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart video.
- How Listening to a Waiter can Jack your Profits up 33%
- Waste some time watching all the best clips from Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- Superheroes have to go to the bathroom, too.
- Frodo’s Twitter posts make my laugh.
- Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar is pretty much exactly what it says.
- Han Solo, P.I.
- Techie Stuff
- Check the performance of your pages with Google PageSpeed.
- Tired of carrying a bunch of store club cards in your wallet or on your keychain? Use your iPhone instead!